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Magpie Swooping Season 2016!

Australia's social website to track aggressive magpies in your area. If you are a cyclist, walker, runner or maybe a concerned member of the public then help protect others and share swooping magpie attacks on-line here!

Swooping Magpie Attack Map across Australia for 2016

Beware resulted in injury!

Click a map pin for further information

What's On MagpieAlert in 2016?

This year MagpieAlert is getting up close and personal! You can now choose to login using your Facebook, Google or Twitter accounts and see this home page personalised just for you.
By signing up you get:

Your own profile where you can choose to see magpie swoopings in your selected local area, you can also choose to have MagpieAlert email you the details of new attacks in your area too!

To comment on each others magpie attacks.

When you record an attack you can now ask us to send it straight to your Facebook time-line or Twitter profile.

If you don't have a social media account not to worry, you can still register magpie attacks anonymously like you've been doing for the past 2 seasons.

Magpies are protected throughout Australia, and it is against the law to kill the birds, collect their eggs, or harm their young. If you feel a magpie is a serious menace, it should be reported to your local council.

PLEASE DONATE to help keep MagpieAlert.com running!

If you have used the Magpie Alert service and found it useful keeping you and your families safe and want to see the service running next year then please donate a small amount to help me keep this service running. Click here to donate

2016 Attack Counts

6936Attacks

1145Injuries

MagpieAlert in the News

We've been so busy this season, here's a collection of news articles and interviews with MagpieAlert.com.

Was visiting Wedge island then made a last minute desision to go to north island and as soon as I hit the sand a magpie took my sunflower hat. I was extremely upset as the sunflower hat was my great great grandmothers hat.
DON'T GO TO NORTH ISLAND OR THEY WILL SWOOP YOU AT TAKE YOU SUNFLOWER HAT THAT YOUR GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER GAVE YOU!!!

Was cycling at fast pace then it started swooping, followed for 100m.
Is awfully close to houses, didn't touch me though. Thought magpie season ended in November...
I am a little bit unsure of the exact location, but what I know for sure is it was after that bush biking track that connects to rails to trails. The track had a branching path that leads to houses and roads, and when I came to the roads I was swooped.

Was listening to music whilst cycling so didnt hear it coming but seen its shadow infront of me, turned round and it was just about to hit me so i dived off my bike. Slightly damaged my bike but luckily no injuries

Your Stories

I was on my usual 60km Sunday cycle route, cycling minding my own business when suddenly there was a snapping at my ear. I put my foot to the pedals and sped up, he came back for more and eventually gave up after about 150m.